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the White Heart
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Iseland
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had Carnal knowledge
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aforesaid some time in the Month of July last but the
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particular Day she does not remember and at sevl. different
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times afterwards at one of which times he got her with
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and that the said
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William Davis
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and no other person
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Father thereof
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19th. day
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of March 1774
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Elizabeth Masan
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